CLARKCOUNTY, ILLINOIS MILITARY DATABASERemember
our Clark County patriots. Some lie in national cemeteries. Some sleep
in hometown graves. Some never made it home. But all have
something in common. They made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our
country, our
freedom
and our quality of life.

Company "K"
78th Illinois
Infantry

Name

Rank

Residence

Date ofMuster

Remarks

ALPS, John F.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Mustered out Jun 7, 1865

BARROW, Henry H.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Died Nashville, May 4, 1863

BEERS, John P.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Disch. Feb. 24, 1865; wounds

BROWN, Brigham D.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Died New Haven, KY, May 7, 1862

DYER, Jacob E.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Disch. Feb. 12, 1865

FELT, Peter L.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Died Chattanooga, Oct. 9, 1863

JOHNSON, George B.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Mustered out Jun 7, 1865

LAWBER, Uriah

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Mustered out Jun 7, 1865

NICHOLS, Thomas H.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Mustered out Jun 7, 1865

PARSONS, Jeremiah

1st Lt.

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Resigned Jun 17, 1863

POTTER, Joshua D.

Recruit

Melrose

Nov 23, 1863

Died Chattanooga, Apr. 23, 1864

ROBERTS, Christoph. C.

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

M.O. Jun 7, 1865 as Serg't.

SHIRL, Benjamin

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Died Nashville, July 15, 1864

WOOD, Leonard

Private

Melrose

Sep 1, 1862

Died Rolling Fork Bridge,KY, Jan. 27, 1863

Army of the Ohio:
September 1862 - November 1862, Army of Kentucky: November 1862 - June
1863, Army of the Cumberland: June 1863 - June 1865 Battles/Campaigns
Engaged in: Tullahoma Campaign, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge
(Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Buzzard's Roost Gap, Resaca, Kenesaw
Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Jonesborough], March to the Sea, Campaign of
the Carolinas [Bentonville]

[See
also 78th in Misc. IL Units]

Organized
at Quincy, Ill., and mustered in September 1, 1862. Left State
for Louisville, Ky., September 19, 1862. Attached to 39th Brigade, 12th
Division, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. Gilbert's Command,
District
of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to February, 1863.
Franklin,
Tenn., Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1863. 2nd
Brigade,
1st Division Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863.
2nd
Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE
- Moved to Shephardstown, Ky., October 5, 1862, and guard Louisville
& Nashville R. R. from Elizabethtown to New Haven, with
Headquarters
at New Haven, till January 30, 1863. Action at Muldraugh's Hill
December
28, 1862 (Cos. "B" and "C," captured by Morgan). New Haven December 30
(Co. "H"). Moved to Nashville, Tenn., January 30 - February 7, 1863.
Repulse
of Forest's attack on Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 3. Moved to
Franklin,
Tenn., February 12, and duty there till June 23. Actions at Franklin
March
4, April 10 and June 4-5. March to Triune, Murfreesboro and thence to
Army
near Shelbyville, June 24-28. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign
June 28 - July 7. Occupation of Shelbyville July 1. Occupation of
Middle
Tennessee till August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee
River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16 - September 22. Battle
of
Chickamauga September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24
- November 23. Chattanooga - Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel
Hill
November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 24-25. Chickamauga Station
November. 26 (Regiment temporarily attached to 15th Army Corps November
24). March to relief of Knoxville November 29 - December 17. Duty at
Rossville,
Ga., till May 1864. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27,
Tunnel
Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25.
Reconnaissance
from Rossville to La Fayette April 11-13. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1
- September 8. Tunnel Hill May 6-7. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge
May 8-11. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Demonstration on Dalton May
9-13.
Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Rome May 17-18. Advance on Dallas May
19-25.
Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New
Hope Church :and Allatoona Hills May 25 - June 5. Operations about
Marietta
and against Kenesaw Mountain June 9 - July 2. Pine Mountain June 11-14.
Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station,
Smyrna
Camp Ground, July 4. Chattahoochie River July 517. Battle of Peach Tree
Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22 - August 25. Utoy Creek
August
5.7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro
August
31 - September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations In North
Georgia
and North Alabama against Forest and Hood September 29 - November 3.
Florence
October 6-8. March to the sea November 15 - December 10. Siege of
Savannah
December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
Averysboro,
Taylor's Hole Creek, N. C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville March
19-21.
Occupation of Goldsbore March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.
Occupation
of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston
and
his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29 - May
19. Grand Review May 24.

Mustered
out June 7, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 9 Officers
and 95 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded and 117 Enlisted men by disease. Total 221.